Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, October 27, 1956

Southampton Swindon Town
D.Reeves (5', 85')
HT: 1-1 B.Edwards (29')
Attendance:  16,739   Referee:  J.J. Baxter


1
CHRISTIE
2
WILKINS
3
TRAYNOR
4
MCLAUGHLIN
5
PARKER
6
ELLIOTT
7
FLOOD
8
REEVES
9
SHIELDS
10
MULGREW
11
HOSKINS
1
CHANDLER
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
JACK
6
PEMBERY
7
GIBSON
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
RICHARDS

Lineups
1
John CHRISTIE
                 
Ray CHANDLER
1
2
Len WILKINS
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Tommy TRAYNOR  
                 
Geoff FOX
3
4
Bobby MCLAUGHLIN
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Pat PARKER
                 
Vince JACK
5
6
Bryn ELLIOTT
                 
Gordon PEMBERY
6
7
John FLOOD
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Derek REEVES
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
8

9
Jimmy SHIELDS  
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Tommy MULGREW
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
John HOSKINS view STFC profile
                 
John RICHARDS
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Results on Saturday, October 27, 1956: League Table

 
  Colchester United 2 - 1 Millwall  
  Coventry City 4 - 1 Gillingham  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Aldershot  
  Exeter City 1 - 1 Brentford  
  Newport County 3 - 0 Torquay United  
  Northampton Town 1 - 1 Shrewsbury Town  
  Norwich City 1 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Plymouth Argyle 1 - 2 Ipswich Town  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 0 Walsall  
  Reading 0 - 4 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Southampton 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Southend United 2 - 0 Watford  

Table as at Saturday, October 27, 1956:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Southampton 16 10 4 2 28 12 2.33 24 
2 Torquay United 17 9 5 3 35 27 1.30 23 
3 Newport County 17 7 7 3 27 16 1.69 21 
4 Colchester United 17 9 3 5 40 25 1.60 21 
5 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 17 6 7 4 30 19 1.58 19 
6 Brentford 17 8 3 6 36 33 1.09 19 
7 Shrewsbury Town 17 5 9 3 19 25 0.76 19 
8 Brighton and Hove Albion 17 7 4 6 41 30 1.37 18 
9 Watford 17 8 2 7 29 24 1.21 18 
10 Queens Park Rangers 17 7 4 6 22 21 1.05 18 
11 Gillingham 17 7 4 6 29 29 1.00 18 
12 Reading 17 7 4 6 26 27 0.96 18 
13 Northampton Town 17 6 4 7 27 22 1.23 16 
14 Coventry City 17 6 4 7 23 27 0.85 16 
15 Millwall 17 6 4 7 27 34 0.79 16 
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 10 4 21 27 0.78 16 
17 Ipswich Town 17 6 3 8 27 27 1.00 15 
18 Exeter City 17 4 7 6 21 23 0.91 15 
19 Norwich City 16 5 5 6 19 21 0.90 15 
20 Aldershot 17 6 3 8 33 39 0.85 15 
21 Southend United 17 4 4 9 26 32 0.81 12 
22 Walsall 17 4 4 9 19 26 0.73 12 
23 Swindon Town 17 5 1 11 24 43 0.56 11 
24 Plymouth Argyle 17 3 5 9 15 35 0.43 11 

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